Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled, and much less complicated, stretch of open countryside. - Phil Blampied
Already more than 2,000 energy-related companies have set up shop in the city. They range from one-man operations selling drilling-survey data to such giant conglomerates as Gulf, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California. Newcomers have swelled the population of the metropolitan area from 1.2 million in 1970 to 1.6 million today-including 4,000 geologists. One of the nation's fastest-growing cities, Denver has begun to rival Houston for the title of "Energy Capital, U.S.A...
George Gallup Jr., who is an Episcopalian as well as a pollster, reported on a national random survey of 512 Episcopal laity and 654 clergy showing that 63% of lay members still prefer the old prayer book. Only 23% are for the new. Episcopalians no longer active in the church are more heavily in favor of the 1928 book than active members, and champions of the old book feel much more strongly than those who like the new. Gallup's data also show a church divided against itself: an overwhelming 80% of the clergy favor the modern prayer book...
...years prior to the survey, seven ceilings had collapsed--four in the previous year, tenants said, adding that holes spanned up to two feet wide. Herbert Nipson, a tenant, knew when the occupant below him was smoking a cigar, because he could smell...
...their survey, tenants claimed that heat was not supplied at the proper temperatures (68-78 degrees). Tenants said this problem was caused by the building's back wall which allowed the wind to blow through cracks between the window fixtures and the wall...